Democrats See Doomed Minimum-Wage Plan as Election Boost

Increase Likely to be Defeated This Week in Senate

WASHINGTON—The Senate is expected this week to take up a long-stalled push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a measure that is likely to be defeated but one that Democrats see as a winner on the campaign trail.

The idea of raising the $7.25-an-hour minimum wage is politically popular, according to polls, but Republicans hope the coming debate will allow them to promote their view that raising the wage will lead to...